[Greenbuilding] 3200 kms (2000 miles) on a scooter to get to the green building conference

[Sam Ewbank]

All that switching back and forth can make your head spin or burn up in
orbit like the following from 1999:

NASA lost a 125 million (murrican dollars) Mars orbiter because a Lockheed
Martin engineering team used English (or Imperial as the case may be) units
of measurement while the agencys team (JPL) used the more conventional
metric system for a key spacecraft operation (orbital descent coordinates),
according to a review finding

Or it could have been the "Great Galactic Ghoul," either way it is likely we
will have an accepted unified field theory before we have an accepted
universal system of measurement.


Sam



On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:02:46 -0400, Tim Vireo Keating <
> t.keating at rainforestrelief.org> wrote:
>
>  2000 miles in 11 - 12 days on a bicycle???
>>
>
>  At 9:58 PM -0400 4/29/11, RT wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> But I can definitely say that 2000 miles should be do-able in about 11-12
>>> days on a bicycle.
>>>
>>
> and
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:18 AM, JOHN SALMEN <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>  I have a 660cc 3 cylinder truck that gets 50mpg.
>>
>
> Murricans are still using "miles" and not "kilometres" like the rest of the
> planet.
> D'oh! My bad.
>
> 2000 miles  = 3200 kilometres
>
> So figuring on about 180 kms per day (assuming the bike is loaded-up with
> grub,camping gear etc), the trip would take about 17-18 days without working
> too hard.
>
> Which brings the "50 mpg" figure that BCJohn mentioned, to mind.
>
> Back when we used "gallons" here in Canada, our Canadian gallon was/is
> bigger than the Murrican gallon -- 1 Canadian gallon = 4.4546 litres whereas
> the US gallon is only 3.7854 litres -- so 50 mpg in Canadian gallons would
> be a little less than 42 mpg in US gallons -- and 50 mpg in US gallons would
> be 60 mpg in Canadian gallons.
>
> Of course, all this US-CDN gallon/mpg nonsense could be avoided if
> Murricans simply started using  "litres per 100 kilometres" for fuel
> consumption.
>
> ie I see that a 2011 Ford Fiesta 1.6 litre non-hybrid gasoline engine is
> rated at 4.9 litres/100 km (highway) which would be 48 mpg (US) or almost 58
> mpg (CDN).
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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